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Our interview with Donnamarie Barnes sponsored by the Shelter Island Library

Ann Banks’ great-great-grandfather. A.J. Pickett was a slaveholder. Karen Orozco Gutierrez’s great-grandfather Milton Howard was one of the people he enslaved. Five generations later, the two women—one from New York City, one from Iowa, -- met in Montgomery, Alabama, to explore the disturbing truths of their shared past. In this webinar sponsored by the Shelter Island Library, they are interviewed by Donnamarie Barnes.

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